Lancelot
\lɑ̃.slo\
The verdict
“Lancelot” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,578. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,578
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage du cycle des romans de la Table ronde et héros de romans de chevalerie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lancelot · Lancelot · French
Lancelot · rank #19,578 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,578
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH laissaient
Nearest frequency peer: laissaient (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lancelot »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Kurdistan
Kurdistan
80,426 corpus weight
- Lacoste
Lacoste
80,425 corpus weight
- laissaient
laissaient
80,424 corpus weight
- Lancelot
Lancelot
80,423 corpus weight
- Laporte
Laporte
80,422 corpus weight
- lasser
lasser
80,421 corpus weight
What this shows « Lancelot » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lancelot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃.slo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lancelot »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Lancelot (IPA \lɑ̃.slo\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,578 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lancelot, with forms such as "alncelot", "lacnelot", and "lanccelot". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "lancet", "lancent", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Lancelot, spelled L-A-N-C-E-L-O-T.
Definition
- 1Personnage du cycle des romans de la Table ronde et héros de romans de chevalerie.
- 2Nom du valet de trèfle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lancelot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lancelot du Lac.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alncelot
- lacnelot
- lanccelot
- lancellot
- lancelott
- lancelto
- lanceolt
- lancleot
- laneclot
- lanncelot
- llancelot
- lnacelot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lancelot - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lancelot", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).